We met to organise our responsibilities and duties for the year. We discussed how to ensure our school is a safe community where everyone shares a love of learning. We are going to ensure all pupils have a reflection area where they can have quiet time and an area where they can play with new equipment. Look out for updates as to what we have achieved!
We have been learning about Stone Age cave paintings in art lessons. We studied the cave paintings in Spain and in France and realised that most depicted animals, man and hunting. We learned about the types of materials they would have used to create them and then we painted our own cave paintings. We even used our own made charcoal that we made in the fire in our forest school session.
This week our forest school’s session started with the tennis ball game. This game extended our listening skills as many balls were being thrown at the same time. We learned how rafts were tied together using ‘floor lashing’ to make it secure. Using a fire flint and striker, we each had a turn to catch a small piece of cotton wool alight – it was much harder than it looked! We ended the lesson with cooking our own marshmallows over the fire. What a lovely way to end this term’s forest school’s session.
The whole school visited Tacon’s Farm to learn how potatoes, onions and pumpkins are grown. Each pupil picked their own potato and onion and Year 6s were lucky and got to pick a pumpkin each. We will be using the produce to make pumpkin soup and potatoes cons for our Harvest Festival celebrations so keep checking the website to see what we make!
A big thank you to Emma and Tacon’s Farm for teaching us about farming and for donating all we picked!
We wanted to thank Emma for teaching us about farming so we learned how to write thank you letters and then wrote our own. We tried to include all the features of a letter and then decorated them with images of the farm. We hope Emma likes them.
We started this week with creative art. Using a combination of salt dough and anything we found lying around outside, we made some interesting creations. Our session then split into different activities. We placed a piece of string around our feet and investigated what was going on in the ground beneath. We found lots of exciting bugs by sweeping them gently into plastic cups then we let them go again into their natural environment. The other activity combined our teamwork and construction skills to build a den using branches and leaves. We created some great dens.
Year 4, 5 and 6 read their own empathy stories to the Year 2 and 3s. Every story had a message about having empathy for others and Year 2 and 3 enjoyed learning from their peers the importance of understanding others.
In Sapphire Class, we have been learning about 3D shapes. We built a range of 3D shapes using Polydron, including hexahedrons, dodecahedrons and octahedrons! We talked about how many faces, vertices and edges the shapes have.
This week, we have been learning about the features of fiction and non-fiction books. As reading detectives, we looked for clues to help us sort the books into groups. Some of the books were really tricky to work out like the book about fossils that looked like a story book! We came up with a table of clues to help us work out if a book was fiction or non-fiction.
Fleggburgh Primary School
Main Road, Fleggburgh, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk NR29 3AG
Executive Headteacher - Mrs Hayley Sonnex
Head of School - Mrs Ingrid Rounce
SENCo - Mrs C Laband
Contact Lisa Phillimore or Tina Cogdell in the school office
Telephone: 01493 369283
Email: office@fleggburgh.norfolk.sch.uk
